This is a beautiful song; I suppose the lack of comments is because the lyrics are so clear in what they mean. The singer is in a longtime relationship with a woman and as he's driving somewhere, alone, he's thinking about her.
They met in a random encounter at a bar or restaurant and for him it was love at first sight, although she was not so quick to reciprocate. Eventually, they did begin a relationship, which continues to the present.
An interesting portion of the lyrics…
your friends call you "Lily Paloma"
But that's not the way that you are
It's too much of a gentle misnomer
For a shooting star
He says that Lily Paloma isn't how she is – a bit of a strange statement because names don't have to describe a person. But a lily is a flower and "paloma" is Spanish for dove, a couple of living things that are beautiful but generally calm and placid. Apparently, Lily's personality is more vivid than that in some way: She's an active lover and sometimes disdainful of other people. Other than that, we don't know much about her.
This song explicitly refers to someone hearing a song on the car radio and during its peak popularity, surely had a lot of fans who enjoyed that when they heard it on their own car radio, and maybe it made them think of someone they knew. For the song to get, pleasingly, into someone's head like that is good marketing – and good art.
This is a beautiful song; I suppose the lack of comments is because the lyrics are so clear in what they mean. The singer is in a longtime relationship with a woman and as he's driving somewhere, alone, he's thinking about her.
They met in a random encounter at a bar or restaurant and for him it was love at first sight, although she was not so quick to reciprocate. Eventually, they did begin a relationship, which continues to the present.
An interesting portion of the lyrics…
your friends call you "Lily Paloma" But that's not the way that you are It's too much of a gentle misnomer For a shooting star
He says that Lily Paloma isn't how she is – a bit of a strange statement because names don't have to describe a person. But a lily is a flower and "paloma" is Spanish for dove, a couple of living things that are beautiful but generally calm and placid. Apparently, Lily's personality is more vivid than that in some way: She's an active lover and sometimes disdainful of other people. Other than that, we don't know much about her.
This song explicitly refers to someone hearing a song on the car radio and during its peak popularity, surely had a lot of fans who enjoyed that when they heard it on their own car radio, and maybe it made them think of someone they knew. For the song to get, pleasingly, into someone's head like that is good marketing – and good art.
@rikdad Nicely stated. Thanks!
@rikdad Nicely stated. Thanks!